CURRICULUM VITAE

Full Professor of Oral Pathology and Medicine at the Dental School, University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy).
Dean and Director of Studies and Research from 1997 to 2009.
In the years 2003-2005 he was President of the Italian Society of Osseointegration (S.I.O.).
Member of the Academy of Osseointegration (AO), of the Board of the Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine (1993-1999) and of Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research (2002- ).
Reviewer of international Journals, Prof. Piattelli has coauthored more than 600 papers in international peer-reviewed Journals.
His main research interests have been immediate loading, bone response to different biomaterials and to human implants.